TitleBuddhist perception for desirable societies in the future : papers prepared for the United Nations University / edited by Sulak Sivaraksa ... [et al.]
Imprint Bangkok : Thai Inter-Religious Commission for Development, Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation, 1993
Descript xv, 288 p. ; 22 cm

CONTENT

Universalism and particularism in theravada buddhism: the case of Thailand -- Beginning and endings: the Buddhist mythos of the arising and passing away of the world -- Sangha, state and people -- Buddhism and the evolution of society -- Buddhist eschatology, millennialism and revitalization movements -- Nonviolence and the morality of abstention -- Science, technology and Buddhism


SUBJECT

  1. Budhism -- Social aspects
  2. buddhism
  3. social aspects

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